Wednesday, October 25, 2006

For any (other) Smithy tragics out there...

enjoy!

(if you can't follow link go to www.thebill.com (see link on side) and go to the interactive then games pages).

Kath ;)

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

News Flood...

Usually there 'ain't much happenin' in my world that is blog-worthy. This week there seems to be quite a bit that I feel I should pass on...

Firstly we're glad to hear that dave www.cafedave.net is on the mend. Welcome back mate!

Sean is getting even better at walking. He now walks to the car (ie ours) and says "car car". He also runs over your feet with his ride-on car.

Talking of bubs, Stump the Pastor http://www.pastor.us/ has an interesting article on Baby Wigs. If your little munchkin is like Sean, it is something that they will never need but is amusing anyway.

Dr Maya Vale - a well respected Sydney based Christian "blog commentator" has had a few good posts lately. Well worth checking out at http://marveladay.blogspot.com/. Dr Vale I am sure would welcome invitations for speaking engagements (prices on application).

Off to Sydney for a brief trip this afternoon - trying to get ahead with my Christmas shopping - back Friday.

Kath :)
SAVE SMITHY!!!

Friday, September 29, 2006

Eating Humble Pie?

Further to my recent post on Whinging... yesterday afternoon while Ian, Sean and I were in the garden, a familiar car drove up our street, and quite obviously parked in front of our house. It was her.

Her is the person who I had an interaction (fight? confrontation?) with on Sunday. I referred to her in my previous post as DN (dangerously naive). I went inside and answered the door. Her had a bunch of flowers and a pyrex dish in her hand and a sheepish smile. Great. Here it comes... forgiveness.

We had a good discussion over a cup of tea (yes, I apologised for where I felt I was wrong and that I had hurt her) and we both clarified a few things.

I guess her and I are now the level of colleagues - well, I guess we are. We both want to serve God by bringing others to know the Messiah's love that we know (and clear up a few operational and clerical issues in our Church along the way). I wouldn't say we're friends, but I don't hate her and I know that I can love her.

By the way, after Sean was in bed and we heated up our part of the pyrex-clad offering, Ian turned to me and suggested that it may have been humble pie. I felt my heart rate go up and the pit of my stomach tighten... "here we go" I thought.... Isn't forgiveness a bitter pill to swallow...

Kath xo
PS It was actually shepherds/cottage pie - humble pie is actually a sweet dish (thank you internet). K

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

This N That...

Most of you know how much I love my son. Some of you know how much I love Wednesdays when a wonderful woman called Wendy looks after my son (she's a dynamo!) as well as four other tots.

Today was no different in the land of Wednesday. I dropped Sean off at Wendy's, bought the paper and went for my coffee (skim latte this morning) at Perenti. Watching the world go by in almost silence... hmmmm

K :)

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Whinging about Whinging...

Further to Barb's recent post (link to her blog on right) I have to say that there is a lot of whinging in the Church. Just as bad (and damaging) is the non-whinging. What do I mean by that? Well it's when people don't say anything or do anything about bad situations. Why am I saying this? Because I felt more than a few (needed) "ouch-es" when I read Barb's blog.

My lack of speaking up (and whinging to Ian and a couple of close friends) culminated to an almost yelling match (with admittedly someone I don't particularly like) on Sunday morning.

This person was wrong in my eyes with what caused my whinging (and even anger), but I should have been bigger than them and nipped it in the bud earlier, which makes me equally as wrong.

Had it not been for two others who were also victims to this person's living in a blissfully (and dangerously) naive existence, I think many of you would have heard me yelling from Sydney.

The verdict? Thankfully God chose my words, so my point was put across, but had it been left soley up to me, I wouldn't have been happy until the dn (dangerously naive) person was in tears. Yep, I'm a bitch - that's why I need God.

Kath :)